The president, in a memo released Thursday, directed U.S. intelligence agencies to cooperate with Barr's review, which he has said would look into allegations by Trump and his allies that his campaign was spied upon and that various figures in the Justice Department and the FBI were trying to undermine him. "We have documents now that I have declassified for the purpose of the attorney general," Trump told reporters on Friday.

President Trump gives Attorney General William Barr broad authority to declassify documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation; insight from Florida Congressman Greg Steube, Republican member of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.